Hunter couldn't believe who was standing right in front of him. "Mom.." he cried out
Starbright smiled happily at him. "Hello, Sweetheart," she said.
Hunter gasped and brushed tears out of his own eyes. "Mom!" he said as he and Colleen ran over to her. Starbright threw her arms around his neck.
"Hi, Honey! Oh, my boy, look at you, look how handsome you are! So strong! I can't believe it.."
"Mom..but..how.." his gaze fell on Exile and Blitz. "Guys..you…"
Exile beamed. "Happy Wedding! Or should we say, Surprise!"
"Was this…"
"Ja it was," Blitz explained. "We figured the most important day of your life you should have your mother here to help celebrate it!" There was a gasp, but Colleen was the one with her hand to her mouth and tears in her eyes at the lovely scene in front of her.
Hunter smiled and took Colleen's hand. "Mom, I want you to met the dog I love with all my heart. This is Colleen. Colleen, this is my mother Starbright. "
Starbright's eyes lit up. "So, you're Colleen, this is such an honor to finally met you!" He stepped forward and gave her the warmest, most loving hug a mother could give. She stepped back and held her at arms length to look at her. "You are JUST as beautiful as Hunter said you are! " She smiled. "This is so wonderful…I'm going to have a daughter! And WHAT a lovely daughter. This is…" she stopped on the edge of tears. "this is such a wonderful night.."
Colleen had tears in her eyes as well. "You're just as lovely as the picture that Huntie had. Thank you for coming to our wedding."
Starbright looked around. 'So, I'm at the farm, resting up, minding my own business, when suddenly a huge sound from the nearby hill rocks the entire place! I run out as fast as I ca to find out what the keck is going on and I see a large ship. It looked like yours, so I run out thinking my son has some to visit..and instead both of these men come out. When I saw what they looked like I knew they had to be your friends. And they asked if you were my son, and then they told e the happy news of your wedding! They told me to come with them. Then they took me to this place I've never seen before, showed me to this chamber.."
"The Transdogmifier!" Hunter said.
"Yes! And…here I am! " She turned to Colleen. "I borrowed one of your dresses that was on your bed, if that's OK. I did feel funny wearing your clothes when I've never even met you. "
"Sure, sure, that's alright. That dress looks nice on you, Starbright."
Starbright smiled. "We're exactly the same size too!" She looked at Colleen. "You look lovely, Dear."
"Well, the room is almost ready and.." Confuse-Us said as he came out. 'Oh, hi there!" he greeted Starbright.
"Confuse-Us, this is my Mother, Starbright," Hunter said, introducing them. Starbright bowed low toward him.
"An honor, oh Great Wise Dog," Starbright said.
"Well, we got another guest! Delightful!"
"Not JUST one more guest," Blitz said.
As of on cue a voice with a heavy Sweeish accent came from behind them "Are we late?" The Rovers and Starbright turned to see the Space Rovers one at a time climb out of their spaceship .
Hey, Space Rovers!" Hunter cried out. "What brings you here?"
"I invited them," Blitz said.
"You did? But, Comrade, when you did do this?"
"In the ship, when we were taking Starbright to be Transdogmified. I sent out a message for them on the radio inviting them to the wedding."
"We are on time?" Persia asked.
"Of course you're on time!' Confuse-Us said. "The more the merrier, I say! I just got to finish putting everything right, lighting candles and all that."
Persia smiled and hugged Hunter. "Hunter, Colleen, we could not be happier for the two of you! This is indeed such wonderful news!" She hugged Colleen and kissed her cheek. "We wanted to come and wish you both congratulations as soon as we heard this very happy news! "
Blitz took this opportunity to rush back to the Cloud Rover. "Bl;itz, where you going? Exil called out.
"I have to pick up one very important thing, Exile. I'll be back very soon!"
Hunter was going around introducing his mother to each of the Space Rovers. While, Hunter,. Shag, Exile, and Muzzle began catching up Starbright took Colleen's hand and lead her away from the group. "While they're all talking, I want to get to know my new daughter some more!" Starbright said happily. "So, Colleen, tell me about yourself, I'm eager to know everything about you! After all, you ARE the newest member of my family!"
A little while later Colleen and Starbright were sitting upon a nearby boulder of the mountain, having quite a pleasant talk. Both women had gotten along really well. Colleen had told Starbright all about the many adventures they had as Road Rovers. Starbright whistled, impressed at all Colleen was telling her. "You told me about General Havoc, you told me about breaking out of that dog capture place, wow, and my son lead all of that?"
"Yeah," Colleen said, her eyes shining. "Huntie is incredible at what he does. He thinks up plans and gets indeas so quickly, and he always keeps a sense of humor as well."
Starbright beamed with pride. "That's my boy! My pride and joy. He was always the best and brightest part of my whole life, ever since he was just a small puppy. Oh, I'd never forget when he was born. He was a comfort and joy to me since then." Her face got a faraway look on it. "I'll never forgive the farmer for taking him away. All that junk about not being able to afford to keep two dogs. I struggled, I barked, I fought to keep my baby. But th farner took him. That was the hardest day of my life. Every day I wondered what happened to my boy. To my son. What became of him, was he taken by a good family, does he have a good life? It was a miracle of God he came back to me!" she looked at Colleen. "And it's another miracle I was able to be here to see y new daughter! Tell me, is it hard on you? Being the only girl in a whole roomful of boys?"
"Nah, not at all," Colleen answered. "After all, I ain't exactly what you';d call 'feminine' not by a bloomin longshot. I always felt more comfortable with boys anyway. Always was a tomboy, ever since I was born. Me Mum, God rest her soul, always said that I was frisky and always moving about ever since I was a pup, ya could hardly keep a leash on me!"
"Same way with being a farm dog," Starbright said. "Ya always have to be on the movee. Chasing the chickens, making sure no foxes or wolves are attacking the farm. No time for a lot of 'girlish charm." She laughed. "We have something else in common!" She hugged Colleen tightly. "Welcome to our little family Dear. We've gone from two to three…and I think you and my son are good for each other. "
"Thank you, Starbright."
"I think your mother must be a very brave woman," Starlight said suddenly. "To raise such a great girl by herself on the London streets" She squeezed Colleen's hand. "And seeing as how you're the result, I think she did a wonderful job!"
Just then Hunter came forward. "Mom? Colleen? An I interrupting something?"
"Oh no, Honey, w were just having a nice talk," Starbright said. She and Colleen stood up.
"Confuse-Us said he's ready to begin." As they were walking to where the mountain was, Starbright hung back,.
"Dear? You made a great pick! I was just having the most delightful of talks with Colleen. She's definitely a keeper. Only knew her about an hour, and I love her. She's great. So polite, charming and spunky!"
"All right, are w all rady?" Confuse-Us asked.
'Wait, wait!" Starbright said suddenly. "Colleen needs something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue!"
After a pause Persia took a shining stone out of her pocket and gave it to Colleen. "Here, this is a new moonstone we found."
"Thank you.":
One of the other Rovers took off a blue ribbon from her hair and put it around Colleen's shoulders. "Here this is blue."
Exile took off a pendant he was wearing on his suit. "Here, Comrade, you may borrow this pendant, it's from Russia."
"Thank you, Exile," Collen said, giving him a hug.
As Blitz's ship landed Starbright pointed out. "That's everything now but the old!"
Just then Cherie Blair, in a long fancy dress came out to join them. "Old enough? She asked.